Social Justice Rage
Jul. 7th, 2012 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7To anyone I know who may be tempted to unironically use the "word" "misandry" in my presence, let's have a little chat:
I really hate this kind of shit that says that there's a "war on men," like that is a thing that could seriously ever have traction in a society as blinkered and blinded to its gender, class, ethnic, and general preferential biases as our Western Society tends to be. I don't know how else to Say these things other than to make it as basic as possible, and repeat some simple sound bites:
"You are not being persecuted when someone prevents you from persecuting others."
"You cannot call it 'special rights' if it's just someone asking for the same rights you have ALWAYS HAD."
True feminist thought is about Complete. Equality. Of Opportunity. For Men AND Women. Why is this so hard to understand?
Yes, there may be some who want to see a complete subjugation of a particular gender, but you know what? There are also people who think that the Son of a Middle Eastern Jewish woman could be a white American. These are not the voices of THINKING PEOPLE who truly care about the truth of these topics.
The facts reflected in this article http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/women/ can be scaled up to discuss societal interaction as a whole, and until people can see that, they're going to have a hard time seeing past the rest of it.
So SEE that.
I really hate this kind of shit that says that there's a "war on men," like that is a thing that could seriously ever have traction in a society as blinkered and blinded to its gender, class, ethnic, and general preferential biases as our Western Society tends to be. I don't know how else to Say these things other than to make it as basic as possible, and repeat some simple sound bites:
"You are not being persecuted when someone prevents you from persecuting others."
"You cannot call it 'special rights' if it's just someone asking for the same rights you have ALWAYS HAD."
True feminist thought is about Complete. Equality. Of Opportunity. For Men AND Women. Why is this so hard to understand?
Yes, there may be some who want to see a complete subjugation of a particular gender, but you know what? There are also people who think that the Son of a Middle Eastern Jewish woman could be a white American. These are not the voices of THINKING PEOPLE who truly care about the truth of these topics.
The facts reflected in this article http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/women/ can be scaled up to discuss societal interaction as a whole, and until people can see that, they're going to have a hard time seeing past the rest of it.
So SEE that.
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Date: 2012-07-07 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 05:02 am (UTC)Men and women have unique problems affecting them, and each of these problems deserves individualized attention. This is not a zero sum game; indeed, problems that directly hurt women indirectly hurt men, and problems that directly hurt men indirectly hurt women. The more we do to help everyone—not just people of a selected class—the better off we'll all be.
Although I consider myself feminist by definition, I do not call myself a Feminist by identity because there are too many self-proclaimed Feminists out there who strike me as caring very little about the struggles of their male brethren. They are poisoning the term "feminism", and I don't want to be associate myself with that poison.
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Date: 2012-07-10 10:08 am (UTC)Precisely correct.
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Date: 2012-07-11 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 01:57 am (UTC)